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History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850. Published with the Sanction of the Connecticut Historical Society.
Published by Wm. Jas. Hamersley., Hartford, CT, 1851
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2." 509 pages, complete. Black-and-white plates and illustrations, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Some of the pages have light foxing and other marks. Covers have slight corner wear and rubbing and slight chipping to the head and tail of spine. A Very Good copy. John William De Forest (1826-1906) was an American author who served as a Union Army captain during the Civil War. Histories and discussions of the different Indigenous tribes of Connecticut including the Podunk, Wangunk, Machimoodus, Nipmuc (or Nipmuck), Pequot, Mohegan, and Narragansett. More in-depth discussions about the Pequots and Mohegans. Cited from Wikipedia: "Written from 1847-1850, the book is critical of the settlers' treatment of the Pequots and of King Phillip's War, which is somewhat surprising given the early date of the scholarship. The non-fictional work also foreshadows De Forest's later fiction in its subject, realism, and occasional violence.".
